Author Archive of Lynharif

Tuesday 27 November, 6 - 7 pm, Westminster. Henry Jackson Society. Lyn Julius author of Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab World Vanished Overnight. What are the root causes of the exodus of Jews from Arab lands and how do they still afflict the Arab and Muslim world today? The issue of the Jewish refugees foreshadowed the flight of other non-Muslim minorities from the region. Does this point to a dysfunction in Arab

Wednesday 21 November. The Wolf of Baghdad is an audio-visual journey through a Jewish family’s memories of their lost Iraqi homeland. Projections of the graphic memoir will be accompanied by a live band playing the music of Iraq and its Jews, an ancient community that lived there for more than two millennia. Led by musician/artist Carol Isaacs AKA The Surreal McCoy & accompanied by the band 3yin. Following the performance, there will be a

Set against the background of Israel's airlift of 50,000 Jews from Yemen in 1949, unique chance to see this sharp, hilarious satire about a family of immigrants from an Arab country and their arrival in Israel. Tuesday 31 July, 8:30 pm. The film broke all box office records at the time. Starring Chaim Topol and directed by Ephraim Kishon. (Running time 110 mins). Screening at Edgware United Synagogue, Parnell Close, Edgware HA8 8YE. Suggested

Tuesday 6 February. The S&P Sephardi Community and Harif are delighted to invite you to the book launch of UPROOTED (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) by Lyn Julius at Lauderdale Road Synagogue, 2 Ashworth Rd, W9 1JY. Until the mass exodus of Christians and Yazidis, the post-1948 displacement of more than 850,000 Jewish refugees was the largest population movement of non-Muslims from the Arab Middle East and North Africa, yet the subject is hardly

Tuesday 30 January 2018. 5.30pm - 7.30pm. Venue: The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB The British Library holds a very interesting collection of Judeo-Arabic books printed in Baghdad, Bombay and Leghorn, that were specifically intended for use by the Babylonian Jewish community. The collection spans more than 140 years and covers a wide range of subjects such as Bible, Halakhah, liturgy (including Passover haggadot), folklore,

Wednesday 24 January 2018. 8pm. Until the mass exodus of Christians and Yazidis, the post-1948 displacement of more than 850,000 Jewish refugees was the largest population movement of non-Muslims from the Arab Middle East and North Africa, yet the subject is hardly ever discussed. Why is there a conspiracy of silence, what made the Jews leave countries where they had been settled for thousands of years, what became of the majority who settled in